The Third Estate (Der dritte Stand), Sigmar Polke, 1995
Sigmar Polke, portraitSigmar PolkeGerman, 1941–2010

The Third Estate (Der dritte Stand)

1995 · Print

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Not on view at present

Where is “The Third Estate (Der dritte Stand)” now? Collection: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Not on view at present. Checked September 22, 2026.

The Museum of Modern Art

New York, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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Accession number
1663.2012

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In the life of Sigmar Polke

The whole life
  1. 1993 · Award

    Lovis Corinth Prize

  2. 1994 · Award

    Erasmus Prize

  3. 1994

    The Erasmus Prize

    In 1994 Polke was awarded the Erasmus Prize in Amsterdam.

  4. mid-1990s

    The “Printing Mistakes” series

    In the mid-1990s Polke began the “Druckfehler” (Printing Mistakes) series: he enlarged printing errors from newspapers, projected them onto polyester and coated them in layers of resin with gold mesh; sometimes he “manufactured” the mistakes — the elongated figures in “From ‘Learning to Learn Anew’” (1998) came from dragging a picture through a photocopier.

  5. 1995

    The Carnegie Prize in Pittsburgh

    In 1995 Polke won the Carnegie Prize at the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh.

All works

On view at The Museum of Modern Art

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